The Journey to the Western Islands Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Penguin Classics)6 reviews Samuel Johnson, James Boswell Penguin Classics, 1984 The Beauties of Boswell + The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides + Johnson in the outer reaches of Scotland + With mule as transport + Johnson observes the passing of an age in Scotland             The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)5 reviews Henry Fielding Penguin Classics, 2005 Please ignore the other reviewer + One for the Ages ... + There is only one Tom Jones + Greatest comic novel ever written             The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics)51 reviews Laurence Sterne Penguin Classics, 2003 Postmodern before modern + I wish I'd had an Uncle Toby + Pre-modernist postmodern A line from the movie "adaptation" put it best: this was a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post to. Simply put, Laurence Sterne threw out all the literary conventions of what a novel should be and how it should be arranged, a few hundred years before more recent writers ...             Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)6 reviews Daniel Defoe Penguin Classics, 2003 You all know the story... + The novel as parable + Have you ever lived a shipwrecked life? but the key point here is that you will get an authoritative text, an interesting introduction, and a well-bound book for under ten bucks. Amazon can get it used for you for even less. I teach an English literature course and I know how much my students are fleeced on certain "Anthologies". ...             An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke)10 reviews John Locke Oxford University Press, USA, 1979 Only to Be Used in Scholarly Research + One of the major works in Western Philosophy + Worth Re-Cognising + Outstanding work from a Giant of a Mind.             The complete poetical works of William Collins, Thomas Gray, and Oliver Goldsmith. With biographical sketches ... Michigan Historical Reprint Series Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 2005 This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.             Love in Excess5 reviews Eliza Haywood Broadview Press, 2000 One of the Best Novels of the 18th (or any) century + Could have been trashier + The first novelist & very much misunderstood + Not for Austen fans necessarily, but a good read             Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon (Oxford World's Classics)3 reviews Jane Austen Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 Austen is brilliant! + Very informative + A 'nice' collection of early Austen and a few out-takes I have been a Jane Austen fan for years, admiring her subtle, clever humor and sharp observations. I had never read any of the tales contained in this volume -- in fact, I had never heard of three of them -- but I found myself delighted by The Watsons and Sanditon, wishing that Jane Austen had ...             The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics)30 reviews Ann Radcliffe Penguin Classics, 2001 The Mysteries of Udolpho: real and imagined + Ahead of her Time! + Like a long and complex dream ... On one level, this novel defies categorisation. Yes, the Gothic web of mystery and intrigue is obvious. And so too are the beautiful descriptions of nature, the struggle between good and evil, the noble acts of heroism and the ignoble acts of greed. Anne Radcliffe has taken all of these ...             The School for Scandal and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)1 review Richard Brinsley Sheridan Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 Hilarious! This edition includes three of Sheridan's most famous works. "The Rivals" and "The Critic" are both fine plays, but the best by far is "The School for Scandal", a droll farce which lampoons gossip-mongers. The high point of the play is the famous "screen scene", in which one character after ...             She Stoops to Conquer (Dover Thrift Editions)10 reviews Oliver Goldsmith Dover Publications, 1991 Among the Most Read and Performed English Comedies + One of the English Stage's Brightest Charmers + A very funny and insightful comedy. + A Forgotten Gem. + Excellent             Evelina (Oxford World's Classics)11 reviews Frances Burney Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 Beautifully Classic + Evelina's Sister + Evelina + Oh my goodness - all the laughing + What a page turner!             A Tale of a Tub and Other Works (Oxford World's Classics)2 reviews Jonathan Swift Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 The most elusive of great books + Damagingly Funny A Tale of a Tub is certainly Swift's least classifiable work. He's best known, of course, for Gulliver's Travels. This work was mostly written at the very start of his career, when he hadn't yet totally hardened into his later misanthropy, and it has all the demented exuberance of a great writer ...             Life of Johnson (Oxford World's Classics)18 reviews James Boswell Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 One of the Lions of England + Reputations die hard + TRULY A WONDERFUL BOOK THAT JUST TAKES YOU TO ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE 'No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money,' Samuel Johnson. Sorry, it is a hobby. Samuel Johnson the writer of the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, which was a very big deal in his day as the elite felt the English language was in decline due to it being ...             A Journal of the Plague Year (Penguin Classics)5 reviews Daniel Defoe Penguin Classics, 2003 Journalism not fiction + Truth stranger than fiction + Angie's Review of "A Journal of the Plague Year" + THE DAWN OF SCIENCE + A credible account of a time of horror             An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding15 reviews David Hume Hackett Pub Co Inc, 1993 As Exciting and Thought-Provoking as Philosophy Gets + Not An Ending, But A Beginning + Descartes' Ultimate Error + Hume at his best + A comment on one part of Hume 's classic             Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics)45 reviews Samuel Richardson Penguin Classics, 1986 Stick with it & it'll stick with you. + What a read! + If Clarissa is too hard for you,,,,try Sir Charles Grandison What a group of despicable characters! By page 500, I was hoping every character would be put to the rack. By page 1000, I was hoping for a mass hanging. By page 1500, I was willing to grant clemency to a few. Dozens of times I nearly relegated this book to the pile of books to be sent to an ...             Roxana, Or The Fortunate Mistress (Penguin Classics)5 reviews Daniel Defoe Penguin Classics, 1982 Unforgettable + Defoe, an early feminist? + A way with words + Interesting Psychological Study + Roxana(beycel@aol.com)             Moll Flanders (Norton Critical Editions)3 reviews Daniel Defoe W. W. Norton, 2004 Give me not Poverty, lest I steal This human portrait of a woman is also an excellent sketch of the living conditions and the social stratification in England in the 18th century: 'the Age is so wicked and the Sex so Debauch'd'. It shows the immense chasm between a small class of wealthy people and the rest (Swift: a thousand to ...             The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Oxford World's Classics)17 reviews Tobias Smollett Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 Wickedly funny and very readable. + Tobias or not Tobias - indeed Tobias + All's Well.... Humphrey Clinker is a 17th century epistolary novel which tells the tale of the Bramble family and its travels through England and Scotland. The letters are written by Matthew Bramble, the family head; Tabitha Bramble, his increasingly desperate unmarried sister; Winifred Jenkins, Tabitha Bramble's ...